MERRY CHRISTMAS!

FROZEN TOMATO PLANTS

FRIENDS WATCHING ME BLOG

ORANGE CACHE AREA

CACHE OVER THERE

THE CACHEMERRY CHRISTMAS EVERY ONE !!!

Have a couple things to share today. First is a pic of frozen tomato plants. These did not have a light bulb in among the plants just had covers. They don't look so good. It is going to freeze tonite and Monday also, so even covered I doubt these will make it. I might try making some green fried tomatoes. Never had them. Grandpa will cover them all again tonite. You can click on pic to see how bad they are.

The second pic is a couple "friends" keeping watch over me while I blog! lol I need more friends!!

The big orange is a geocache me and Maggie found last week, it is one of only two I have found here in Florida since I came back in Nov. When I looked for this on last winter when I was here I could not find it, well looking back on the logs I see that it was missing then. When I pulled into the parking lot a boy muggler came out of his house across the way and watched me the whole time I was there, so after about 1/2 hr I just took the cache with me to look for the next one, went back about on hr later he was gone so I replaced the cache. It was obvious he was not going to leave until i did. The log was very wet, but it dried out so I could sign it and put it back.

Having ham for dinner grandpa cooked it yesterday, it seems like that if he has something to do or something is going on, he has to do it or get ready several days ahead of time. Hmmmmm.....

oh well, .........................

All for now thanks for taking a look, and have a blessed day

G&M

WEEKEND FUN & CACHE OF THE DAY

WE WENT ACROSS THIS.....if there were not some Mc-Mansions behind our house I could see this bridge out my kitchen window.

TO GET HERE THE OCEAN ....It is about 4 mi. from where I live to the ocean, and this is the first time I have made it there since I got here. Those waves do not look big in the pic, but they are BIG! And make a lot of noise, and pounding the sand. I forgot how beautiful the ocean is, I love it there and plan on going often. It wasn't real hot on Sat. and I took Maggie out and about with me. She stayed in the truck a few min while I checked it out, I saw a bunch of paw prints in the sand so I went back and got her. LOL she was so funny (her first trip to the ocean) she loved the sand and all ran around sniffing, but she did not like those waves and the water chasing her when it came ashore. I tried to get a pic of her side stepping trying to get away from it, ever see a dog run backwards. LOL, well she did! We didn't stay long didn't want the dog on the beach police to get us. No dogs aloud on the beach in Bevard Co. and its hard to go with the dogs because Bevard Co is about 70 miles long, and we are about in the middle.

THEN WE WENT HERE....a nice little park on beach side ( as apposed to the main land) it was full of dogs being walked. We ate our lunch here and looked for a couple geocaches but did not find any. I am not having much luck finding caches here. Cant figure out why. After this park visit we headed back across the bridge, but on the way back I spotted a neat nursery and gift shop. WoW expensive, but I will go back in Jan. I will take some pic's then.

SUDZI CACHE AREA

THE CACHE This is a cache I found last summer in PA. It was located at a car wash took awhile because there were mugglers tending to cars. But finally got it on the side of the building.

While we were over on beach side we went to a bunch of yard sales. I got a few books and some other paper stuff, and that was about it. Really that's all I am looking for at this time. Its for my altered art projects.When we got back stopped at a few more yard sales and then headed home all in all we were gone about 6 hrs.

Sunday took my daily trip to wall mart LOL, it is close , too close , and worked on my altered art cooked roast in crock pot, took Maggie for a couple walks, and that was about it. I am posting about my art on my other blog check it out. I am working on a Junkque Journal (junk journal)for my self go take a look. http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com/

All for now thanks for looking and come again

G&M

TOMATOE TENT CITY & CACHE OF THE DAY

TENT CITY

CHRISTMAS TIME

ROCKY GLENN CACHE

THE CACHE WEATHER IN FLORIDA : 32 LOW LAST NITE..HIGH TODAY 60 COOL BUT NICE

Well with the temp going down to 32 and freeze mode, it was time for dad to get out the covers for the tomatoes. Looks like a tent city around here, an upscale tent city with electric. He put a light bulb in each one to keep his babies warm lol. Last year in Jan he had them on for 2 weeks because it was the coldest winter in FL in 50 years. Hope its better this year. The tomatoes are really good better than last year.

Its Christmas time when I am making peanut butter blossom cookies. Getting ready to send to kids and Gkids.

Not doing much right now with the cold weather, Maggie doesn't want to go for walks in the cold, she really didn't like the cold in PA. either.

I am working on my altered art, I post about that on my other blog. http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com/

Went to Goodwill today, and found a really neat little folding table about 3' X 2' just the right size for where I want it. Also got Maggie a new water and food bowl. Speaking of Maggie she has another hot spot. I am now trying to get her off the wagon train chicken. Maybe that is the cause, one of the things that "could" cause is food. She is a pistol to say the least. Can I say SPOILED !

The cache of the day is one I found last summer in PA. On the edge of a cemetery. Was not to hard to find with the GPS, when you take a look at where it is, in the brush, you would wonder how one could ever find it. In most cases like this you could not with out the GPS. I have not been caching much while I have been here, don't really know why. Maybe because when I did go I did not have good luck finding any, only found one so far.

Well this is all for now sure hope some fun exciting things happen so I can blog and not bore you.

Thanks for stopping by

G&M

FIRST TOMATOES, GRANDPA IN THE PATCH

OUR FIRST TOMATOES OF THE SEASON! JEALOUS ?? LOL

GRANDPA TENDING TOMATOES

VINTAGE CHRISTMAS CURTAINS

CURTAINS & VINTAGE POTHOLDERS WEATHER IN FLORIDA: TEMP MORNING 40 AFTERNOON 64 & SUN

Today was cool but nice, really did not do much, worked around house, made lasagna, got some cookie dough ready to bake, worked in the Florida room. I will post about that on my other blog tomorrow. http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com/ Went to big lots, and wall mart forgot to get flour for cookies yesterday. I wanted to go to the beach this week but looks like it will be to cold for that.

The pic of tomatoes are the first ones we got the other day, we are now getting 2 or 3 a day. So trying to come up with some ways to eat them. Soon he will be giving them away to his friends.

He planted some peppers too, they are coming along slow, I think they need more sun.

I hung up some Christmas curtains that I brought from PA. This is the first chance I have had to use them. Nice for a red and white kitchen. Also hung up the red and white vintage hand crochet pot holders I had. There were 7 of them, and I think I need about 6 more to go between the ivy curves. The ivy was already there, stenciled on. Hung up the cherries plaque above the clock.

Maggie still is not eating good, and I have to stand in the kitchen while she does eat. My DD thinks she might be home sick. When we got in the truck and left her house, I guess she figured she was going home as she usually does. But we spent 2 days on the road, and came to FL. She started digging at her hip again I hope the hot spot is not coming back!

Well thats if for now, thanks for stopping by.

G&M

CATCH UP & CACHE OF THE DAY

WINCHESTER BWW

PLAYING GAMES @ BWW

MORE GAMES

DUSTIN & JACKIE

PYMATUNING CACHE IN THERE

CACHE.... IT WAS THERE WEATHER : SHOWERS AND CLOUDY TEMP 80.

Had Thanksgiving dinner good if I do say so myself, even tho myself cooked it. Was just dad, Maggie & me.

Thought I might post some of my stay in Winchester on the way down. Over the weekend I was there grandson Dustin and his girl Jackie came from Pittsburgh where they go to college. No foot ball game to watch, but we went to for lunch on Sat. We were playing games while there. Had fun.

Today (Mon) I worked on more scrubbing the ceiling in the Florida room I can only work over my head for a short period of time, but hope to get it done this week. It got mildew on it and dad could not clean up so it went for several years, and now hard to get off. I am using vinegar and water. I first used some stuff dad got strong bleach stuff, you needed a hazmatt suite to use it. Was nasty stuff, and I did not want to breath it and get it all over me. Went on line and found the vinegar idea.

I went out on black Friday to Best Buy looking for a new lap top, found one but when it came down to it, just cant spend the $$ at this time. I keep limping this thing along. To many people out didn't go any where else that day. Sunday Maggie and I went geocaching, found only one! Will post about it later. I am setting up the Florida room as my craft room. I will post about that on my other blog.

http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com/

The cache of the day is one I found last spring at Pymatuning Lake not far from my home in PA.

Look at the size of the cache and look at the area I was looking in, this is when the old GPS comes in handy, you would never find it without GPS. It is fun playing a grown up treasure hunting game with a multi-million dollar satellite system, kinda funny when you think about it.

All for now thanks for stopping by.

G&M

IN FLORIDA AND CACHE OF THE DAY

NC CACHE aka: MAYBERRY

ANDY GRIFFIN MUSEUM

BARNY'S SIDE CAR

THE CACHE WEATHER: TEMP 80 AND WALL SUNSHINE!

Hi all....sorry been so long...anyway I am now in Florida! I will be posting on my trip but not in any order, just what ever, when ever.... Grandpa went to his first pro football game last weekend at Jacksonville they were playing his team the Cleveland Browns, guess he had a blast. They tail gated and everything. I have been working around here, making the Florida room in to my craft studio. Had to do some major cleaning still not done. Now I have to make room for all my stuff, not easy when you have no storage yet. I did find a couple things at a yard sale last weekend, a chest of those plastic stack drawers on wheels you see at WM, some guy was selling them, like new, and only wanted $1 for them grabbed them fast. Been doing the yard sale thing trying to find shelving etc for my craft studio I do have it set up enough to start making a few things, will post on that soon on my other blog http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com/ check it out. Had to take Maggie to the vet, she had a hot spot that came about in VA, while we were there. Vet gave us some spray and that helped it heal up. Expensive little girl.

The cache of the day is one we found on the way in NC, I didn't have one for that state, so we stopped on the way, at MT Airy, where the Andy Griffin Museum is to find one in front of the building. Moved a couple stones out of the way and there it was. Did not spend the time to go in the museum this time, maybe another time.

Today went to pick up a few things for Thanksgiving dinner, I am cooking the whole thing, for the 2 of us. Told dad I wanted to eat left overs for a week, I love Thanksgiving dinner. Making something new, for desert, mix can of pumpkin with brownie mix, hope it turns out.

All for this time thanks for stopping by

G&M

SAFE TRIP - TRICK OR TREATERS & CACHE OF THE DAY

Gdaughter on far right kids are only 13 but sure do look older! But when I looked 21 when I was 12 at 5' 9" tall. Tricker treaters on my corner......it was like this all over the east end. and we have very few kids in the neighborhood. I ran out of candy.

My fav's coloring crayons.

PATH CACHE Maggie on the path looking for the cache. This was one we found this summer on a newly paved rails to trails bike, walking trail. Really nice. The head of the trail starts in Sharpsville PA and goes for a few miles. I like these cache locations, even if I got dirty looks from one biker. Like this was just a bike trail and I was not welcome walking. We had fun anyway. Maybe next summer we will go look for the rest of the caches on this trail

THE CACHE.................located on an old guard rail where a road use to go across the rail road tracks. Really over grown and hard to see in summer. Must ware orange in the fall!

Had a safe uneventful trip south to VA. Went the same rt and saw the same view but with out most of the colorful leaves. Stopped same place for our brown bag lunch, being Monday not so much traffic. Today Tues, kids are going to vote, then we will go to Costco and a few other places.

I will be helping my dd base coating slate , she is getting ready for a big show mid Nov.

All for now thanks for stopping by

G&M

THIS & THAT + CACHE OF THE DAY

ACORN SQUASH

ROCKY GLEN CACHE

THE CACHE WEATHER TODAY: WARMISH WITH RAIN FALL DAY

Post for today is same ol ' same ol' ....packing getting ready to leave, five days and counting , leaving on the 1st of Nov. Truck 3/4 full. What a job, trying to get everything I can in that small truck. I am even putting my clothes in WM bags and squashing them in every nook and cranny!

I will fluff them up in the dryer after I get to FL. I am also giving the house a clean up, nothing worse that coming back to a messy house. And it was a mess stuff everywhere, but after packing up, it wasn't so bad. I am sure I will have an inch of dust when I get back in May. Forced air heat is dusty!

Judy ask me about the live writer program, I did try Judy, to down load it, but it got half way done and a pop up said that it had a corrupt file and would not finish, so I didn't take it any further. I would like to be able to do more with the blog, but this lap top is kinda old , so thinking I might wait till I get a new one.

The cache of the day is one I found this summer in a Cemetery not far from town. I was pretty easy to find, and no excitement while looking, I guess that's a good thing lol.

Roasted some acorn squash also, a dab of butter and brown sugar, MMMMMMMMM good! I freeze it in meal size bags. 1/2 squash per meal.

That's all for day thanks for stopping by.

G&M

PUMPKINS ! & CATCH UP

FARM MARKET WINCHESTER VA PUMPKIN MAZE I am going to type in this space to see where it takes the letters. I would like to be able to type under or above the pic's that I post. So this is just a test to see what happens. VA Farm Market fun place to visit.

FASHIONABLE WHITE PUMPKINS

LOVE ALL THESE COLORS AND TEXTURES

COOL DISPLAY
WEATHER: Temp 45 to 60's Typical fall temps.

This farm market is on in Winchester Va, on 522 south. I love stopping here in the fall, lots of fall deco and apples. I stopped here early in the morning on the way home. Didn't buy anything just walked around took some pic's. I love fall!!

Catch up, Been busy packing truck and trying to figure out what I can take this trip and what will have to wait. 8 days and counting! Most of what I have loaded now, 10 totes, is my craft stuff for my new hobby Altered Art. I plan on making some $$ this winter on the things I make, so need to get this stuff there. Speaking of AA, I was trying to decide what to do about a blog about it, think I will include this in my other blog http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com/ it already has some of my art/craft projects on it, I think it will work out pretty good, if it doesn't I will start a new one. I have cant wait to get started on this, hobby I have ssoooooo many ideas ! I hope I can find some like minded peeps in Fl to share with.

Son came in last week and we got part of the truck packed, left to do yet, clean house up, gather up clothes, finish outside put away, and last min things. Does not look like much but believe me it is!.

Last post I told you about the full time RV couple, well looks like their daughter is going to make a book out of her blog, I think that is the greatest thing, Grandkids will love it, and future family members will be able to take a peek at what it was like in the life of their ancestors. I would love to be able to take a look at what my GGGGrandparents looked like and how they lived , even the day to day life I find so very interesting.

No cache today. But plan on doing some caching on my way to Florida. I had fun doing that on the way back from my DD's a couple weeks ago.

Well that's it for now thanks for visiting my blog.

G&M

TRAGEDY IN RV BLOGGING FAMILY

Yesterday morning a tragedy hit the RV blogging world Bruce and Margie were killed by a 19 yr old trying to kill himself with a car. I didn't know these two but followed Margie's blog, when I first went looking for Fulltime RV blogs hers was one of the first to show up, and I have been reading it ever since. I am so saddened by this even tho I did not know them. If you want a good read here is a link to her blog, go take a look. They had a fur baby Anne too. http://www.bruceandmargiesfulltimejourney.blogspot.com/

ROAD TRIP START FRIDAY

LUNCH STOP

DOWN THE PA TURNPIKE

LOT OF THIS ON TURNPIKE

ALLEGHENY MOUNTAIN TUNNEL

JAM UP AT BREEZEWOOD WEATHER : TEMP 60 some what cool but sunny!

This is a 5 part catch up road trip post!!!

Forgot to take pic's to turnpike and getting on, the first one is when we stopped for lunch was so crowded we had to park illegal. I packed lunch so we didn't take to long. Ate in the truck. I takes about 5 hrs or so to get to my daughters house. We made a couple stops so took use about 1/2 hr more. As you can see the foliage is still mostly green on the way down, but if you check the last post of this road trip you will see a big difference only 4 days can make. And of course there was the on going construction on the turnpike, I have been going to VA for 25 years and never had a clear road the whole way. We are about 3/4 of the way when we get to the Allegheny Mountain Tunnel, so I am always glad to see it. Another 30 min and we are in Breezewood a major hub along the turnpike. It is always crowded, as you can see, by the pic. I felt tiny between these two! Then to I-70 to 522 S. on to Winchester VA. Let the fun begin. Been awhile for fun times around here, all the work going on this summer!

No cache today.

Thanks for stopping by !

G&M

ROAD TRIP SAT COLOR FEST

COLOR FEST

TO THE PARK

AIR CACHE

THE CACHE OPEN

FOUND THE CACHE
WEATHER: SAT WAS IN THE 80'S AND HOT HOT!

On Sat. we went to Thurmont MD ,takes about 2 1/2 hrs from my DD house. This is a HUGE festival to say the least. The first pic, when we first got there. By the time we got to the park the next pic, that was the crowed of peeps walking to get in the park, it was like that all over the park there were 350 craft booths in there and it was like that all day. It was so bad that I could not get any pic of booths anywhere in town. The park is the main show, and there are vendors along main st, and all side streets and some parking lots, and many cubbie holes. Then there are a couple other areas, like the American Legion (this is were we always set up) and they have about another 350 booths. and across from that is the carnival grounds and another 250 booths, with booths along the streets and in more cubbie holes. In all I would estimate about 1, 500 vendors, that would include food booths. That might be a low est. Then all over and around town, tons of yard sales set up for the weekend. You could not see everything in one day. We did get to a couple yard sales, we were walking along waiting for SIL to get the car. He picked us up on the way out of town! I think we were there about 6 hrs or so and sat down once to eat lunch, at the fire dept booth, hot roast beef sandwich, ff, and cole slaw. Mmmmmmmmmmm good. We headed home to get the fur babies , that were not happy campers, being left so long.

The cache of the day is another one I found on the way home. The hint was ( get some air) so it was not hard to find. Now when I first started geocaching I would never have found this one. Only thru research and reading logs, and blogs did I found out about this type of cache. It is a fake electric cover, as you can see take it off it has 4 round magnets to hold it on with the cache log in a taped baggie. I think that's one of the fun things about caching all the different containers used.

Click on pic to make larger.

All for now thanks for stopping by.

G&M